President-elect Donald Trump named his nominees for several key roles in his second term, including the controversial selection of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was recently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, for attorney general.

Pope Francis is asking parishes, Catholic institutions and religious congregations in Rome to celebrate the Holy Year 2025 by offering a home to someone who is without.

Virginia’s Catholic bishops decried a move by a Virginia House of Delegates’ committee Nov. 13 to advance proposed constitutional amendments that would add a right to abortion in the state’s constitution and repeal a constitutional provision that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

With new reports by human rights organizations in Europe, it is clear that anti-Christian discrimination is a hot-button issue on the old continent, and on the rise.

Artisans, tradespersons and craftspersons make the world more beautiful and are collaborators in God’s creativity and desire for peace, Pope Francis said.

A local Italian group launched an online petition urging Pope Francis, the Vatican and others to stop the “fir tree-icide” of cutting down a 200-year-old red pine to decorate St. Peter’s Square for Christmas.

Defending the dignity and sacredness of every human life requires working to create economic and social systems that promote the common good of all, Pope Francis said.

As the Israel-Hamas war enters its second year, expanding to a wider region of the Middle East, two Catholic agency leaders based in Jerusalem and Beirut are warning the conflict is decimating the populations they serve.

A great many things will matter when JD Vance enters the West Wing of the White House to take office after he is sworn in Jan. 20. How might his Catholicism impact what he brings to a new Trump administration and the business of running America?

With immigration an ongoing issue after the 2024 U.S. general election, three U.S. Catholic bishops issued a Nov. 14 statement of pastoral concern pledging support for immigrants.